Laravel Deployment & Server Management Blog

SOC 2 for a Laravel SaaS: What Infrastructure Evidence You'll Actually Need

SOC 2 explained for Laravel engineers: which infrastructure evidence auditors actually request, how a VPS-based stack produces it, Type I vs Type II strategy, and realistic timelines. Type II means proving controls worked over a 3-12 month window, not just claiming they exist.

Sameh Elhawary · Sep 05, 2026 · 22 min read

DigitalOcean vs. Vultr vs. Linode for Laravel: A Price and Performance Breakdown

DigitalOcean, Vultr, and Linode compared for Laravel hosting in 2026: entry plans from $4/month, the 4GB production tier where most apps live, hidden egress and snapshot costs, managed database math, region coverage, and honest per-use-case verdicts from a team that runs all three.

Sameh Elhawary · Sep 03, 2026 · 22 min read

Migrating From Laravel Vapor to Deploynix: Trading Serverless for Servers

Vapor is brilliant until your traffic goes steady and the Lambda bill stops making sense. A practical migration guide: mapping Vapor concepts to servers, draining SQS safely, cutting over DNS, and a worked cost example showing where the savings come from.

Sameh Elhawary · Aug 27, 2026 · 20 min read

ARM vs. x86 Servers for Laravel: Should You Switch in 2026?

Hetzner's ARM servers cost roughly 26% less than their x86 twins for identical vCPU and RAM. We break down what that gap means for Laravel: single-thread speed per request, PHP-FPM concurrency, arm64 compatibility in 2026, and a safe blue/green migration path.

Sameh Elhawary · Aug 23, 2026 · 19 min read

Migrating From Heroku to Deploynix: A Cost and Control Upgrade for Laravel

A step-by-step runbook for moving a Laravel app off Heroku: concept mapping, pg_dump migration, queue workers, DNS cutover, and a worked cost example showing a $115/month Heroku stack replaced by a $12-24 VPS.

Sameh Elhawary · Aug 21, 2026 · 18 min read

Passkey Authentication in Laravel 13: Setup, HTTPS Requirements, and a Sane Rollout Plan

Laravel 13 ships first-party passkey support. We cover how WebAuthn actually works, why the relying party ID is a one-way door, why staging needs real HTTPS, how to test with virtual authenticators, and a phased rollout plan that won't lock your users out.

Sameh Elhawary · Aug 19, 2026 · 24 min read

Laravel 13 Native Attributes: Slimmer Models and a Cleaner Codebase

Laravel 13 replaces $table, $fillable, and $hidden with native PHP attributes across 15+ framework locations. Here's what changed, real before/after code for models, listeners, and mailables, and a pragmatic plan for migrating a production codebase without drama.

Sameh Elhawary · Aug 17, 2026 · 19 min read

Laravel 13 Native Attributes: Slimmer Models and a Cleaner Codebase

Laravel 13 replaces $table, $fillable, and $hidden with native PHP attributes across 15+ framework locations. Here's what changed, real before/after code for models, listeners, and mailables, and a pragmatic plan for migrating a production codebase without drama.

Sameh Elhawary · Aug 12, 2026 · 19 min read

PHP 8.5 in Production: The Pipe Operator, and Upgrading PHP-FPM Without Downtime

PHP 8.5 shipped in November 2025 with the pipe operator, fatal error backtraces, and array_first(). Here's what's actually worth using in a Laravel codebase, plus a zero-downtime playbook for upgrading PHP-FPM from 8.4 to 8.5 on Ubuntu 24.04 with an instant rollback path.

Sameh Elhawary · Aug 09, 2026 · 20 min read

Building an MCP Server in Laravel: Let AI Agents Talk to Your App Safely

Build an MCP server in Laravel with the official laravel/mcp package: tools, resources, prompts, Sanctum authentication, per-tool policies, rate limiting, audit logging, Pest tests, and production deployment. A security-first walkthrough from the Deploynix team.

Sameh Elhawary · Aug 09, 2026 · 22 min read

Laravel Reverb's New Database Driver: Real-Time WebSockets Without Redis

Laravel 13 added a database scaling driver to Reverb, so you can run multi-process WebSockets without Redis. We cover how it works, when to use it, and the full production setup: Supervisor, Nginx TLS, file descriptors, and monitoring.

Sameh Elhawary · Aug 03, 2026 · 20 min read

Laravel 13's First-Party JSON:API Support: Standards-Compliant APIs Without Packages

Laravel 13 ships first-party JSON:API support: resource classes that handle serialization, sparse fieldsets, relationship inclusion, and pagination links automatically. Here's how the new classes work, when to migrate from classic API Resources, and how to run a compliant API in production.

Sameh Elhawary · Aug 02, 2026 · 21 min read